Real Scary

Mariana Enriquez’s horror novel of 1980s Argentina
David Kurnick
Kerry Howley. Photo: Jordan Geiger.

Sticky Fictions

Kerry Howley’s nuanced portraits of whistleblowers and other deep-state dissidents
Tarpley Hitt
Ash Thayer, Matty, View from Serenity Roof #2, 1997, materials variable, 40 × 60”. Courtesy the artist

DIY PI

Sam Lipsyte reinvents the detective novel for the last days of punk
Lisa Borst
Sybil Andrews, In Full Cry, 1931, color linocut on paper, 11 3/8 × 16 1/2". © Glenbow Museum, Calgary

Cut to the Chase

Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power’s interwar art
Apoorva Tadepalli
Paul P., Untitled, 2021, watercolor on paper, 6 3/4 x 9 5/8". Courtesy Queer Thoughts, New York.

Down and Outbreak

A science writer investigates COVID and its origins
Michael Robbins
fiction
Cornelia Parker, An Idea, 2015, polymer photogravure etching on paper, 28 3/8 × 22 7/8". © Cornelia Parker, Courtesy Cornelia Parker and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London.
Anna Moschovakis’s novel of collectives challenges the reader to participate
Jess Bergman
fiction
A new translation of Proust’s late masterpiece
Rebecca Ariel Porte
culture
Whit Stillman, Metropolitan, 1990. From left: Chris Eigeman, Edward Clements, Allison Parisi, Dylan Hundley. Courtesy The Criterion Collection
The private longing and public performance of going out
Sophie Haigney
culture
Writers on their favorite books of 2022
Bookforum contributors
fiction
Ellen Rundle, Blooming Barrel Cactus with Woodpecker, 2017, glazed stoneware, 11 × 6 × 6". Courtesy the artist.
Lydia Millet’s novel of a privileged man’s transformation
Lily Meyer
culture
Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams in a pose from George Balanchine's Agon, New York, 1957. Martha Swope/Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
A biography of George Balanchine shows the fragile contingency of genius
Siobhan Phillips
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